Power-counting and the validity of the classical approximation during inflation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Burgess, C P ^a,b   Lee, Hyun Min ^b   Trott, Michael ^a  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classical theories of gravity; Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Higgs physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350041486     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/103     Document Type: Article

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